Done Since 2020-02-16

[mdlbear]

I'm having trouble summarizing this last week; probably because I wasn't paying much attention. Or not doing much. Actually, a little more reading and singing than usual, the first because I've finally begun sorting through boxes of books in the garage, and the second because it's getting closer to Consonance. Still, a week without major disasters has to count for something.

The week's main (re)reading was the last parts of Morgoth's Ring (roughly the early versions of the first part of The Silmarillion), and Asimov's The End of Eternity. which I had been thinking about on and off for quite a while. It's also the source of the upwhen/downwhen terminology I occasionally use here. (Somewhat confusingly, time on the river flows in the opposite direction, from upstream to downstream rather than from downwhen to upwhen. Sorry about that.)

I also wrote a little script to check a file of passwords for leakage using the "range" API at HIBP. My password file contains lots of false positives, since it also includes things like PINs. There are a few genuine hits, but none of those are on sites that would cause any trouble if they were hacked. I appear to be reasonably safe otherwise.

My back is still giving me trouble, but not enough to worry about; I still have a supply of meloxicam, and I'm starting PT on Wednesday.

Notes & links:

0225Su  * litter boxen
  & awake 3am; S= 3.9; back to bed ~4:45
    : used the new amber reading light -- barely usable.
  * up 7am; S=6:04; laundry, shower, cpap card read
    Ted's pain gel on lower back.
  * last of the bagels for breakfast
  @ Welcome to the Era of Fake Products | Wirecutter
  @ How To Use Git to Manage Your Writing Project | DigitalOcean
    An Introduction to Open Source | DigitalOcean 
  @ Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My
    Day. | Inside My Mind (cellio) (I have one)
  @ To Kill a Community – DEV.BIZ.OPS (cellio)
  * more in the garage.  ashes.  Located costume/sewing books -- there's room for them
    Book Trails, but we have a set in the house already
    -> went back and got sewing/costume books -> sewing corner
  * applied a second dose of Ted's around 5pm
  * finished Morgoth's Ring ~9pm
  % 9:20pm feeling very cold -- shivering slightly.  It's 70 but feels colder.  Coming
    down with something?  -> put on fuzzy red bathrobe
  * singing:  Ship of Stone; Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts.  I think one more at
    the beginning but can't remember.  Lily, et.al. isn't in the songbook -> fixed

0217Mo
  & awake ~1:30 (when C got up); trouble getting back to sleep
  * up 6:30ish; S=7:32; Ted's -> seems to be helping?
  @ An app can be a home-cooked meal S(L)
    Shirky: Situated Software 
  & bounced check for ambulance payment - there appears to be enough in the acct now.
    (doesn't explain why it bounced) ref# 052854
  & recycling boxes from the garage (d).  There's still a lot.
  * C needs to call Mindy at UW digestive health center to schedule GI appointment
    -> closed today; they'll call back (call ME back)
  * 5pm singing with N' -> Daddy's World
  % 9ish fading out -- tired, drifty

0218Tu
  * up 7ish; W=199.4, S=7:14;
    Not sure why my weight is finally heading back down, but not complaining
  @ D3.js - Data-Driven Documents (Edward Tufte forum: Sparkline theory and practice)
    Table of Contents | The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
    The Memoir class manual LaTeX book class
  : as of 1pm UW hasn't called, but Island Drug called to say my supplies are at Clinton
  ~ expect call from UW digestive health -- make appointment for C
    -> C called; appointment is at end of April    
  * pick up CPAP supplies.  2 filters (1 pkg), 2 nosepieces (2 pkgs).  order date 2/18
  @ Germany is shutting down its coal industry for good, so far without sacking a single
    worker - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 
  * fixed recipe for PDF_LINKS in kf/.config.make.  Now searches the entire path.
  * call Mom
  * singing:  Daddy's World
  % 10pm cold, sleepy

0219We
  & Up 4am; S=5.5; tried to go back to bed at 6:30
    % back hurting, on the right.  Could the weighted blanket be stressing it when I get
      out of bed?  Wouldn't surprise me.
  * finished "The End of Eternity"
  @ Edward
    Tufte forum: Practical Advice for Medical Patients
    " For learning about your medical issue, go first and maybe only to these websites:
      Mayo Clinic, NIH, Wikipedia, and, for detail about your problem once you know what
      it is, Medscape. Never rely on Google list or the creepy sewer of ads embedded in
      Google's list. "
  @ Edward Tufte on GitHub
  * 2:40 C Dr. Rochier - start leaving ~1:50
  * walk: to Nautilus (i.e., one block) plus second trip up driveway for second trashcan
    Given that my back still hurts and I took my cane, ...
  % back still dicey -> meloxicam ~6:30
  & make status on sable; found some things that needed updating (uncommitted changes and
    a couple of forgotten pulls) Some may have come from Cygnus.
  & tried sleeping without the weighted blanket this time
  
0220Th
  * up 7:ish; S=8:05;
    % Not using the weighted blanket may have helped with sleeping; not clear about back.
      It _seemed_ easier to get out of bed, but there was still some twisting.  Unclear.
  @ A Toast for Strypes appears to have been my entry into alt.callahans, 1989-12-11
    I was actually searching for my old UUCP address, which my .sig gives as
    arc!steve@apple.com; the Path: header says ...!usc!apple!arc!steve
  : V dropped off Molly's key -- apparently I forgot to remind her yesterday
  @ Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time - BBC Worklife
    " The task we’re putting off is making us feel bad – perhaps it’s boring, too
      difficult or we’re worried about failing – and to make ourselves feel better in the
      moment, we start doing something else, like watching videos. " dead on
    " The next time you’re tempted to procrastinate, “make your focus as simple as ‘What’s
      the next action – a simple next step – I would take on this task if I were to get
      started on it now?’”. "
    " An approach based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ‘ACT’, an off-shoot of
      Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, seems especially apt. ACT teaches the benefits of
      ‘psychological flexibility’ "
  @ Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) - Wikipedia
    How Does Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) Work? good resource list
    but aimed at providers, not clients
    ACT worksheets [PDF]
  % choice paralysis in music practice
  @ The ‘Internet of Things’ Is Sending Us Back to the Middle Ages
  @ Inside the Music Industry's Vinyl and CD Distribution Crisis - Rolling Stone 
  * pick up C's script at RiteAid
  * SL: bacon (thick, thin), no salt butter, pork ribs, blood orange cran, 2 cream cheese,
    english, fresh herbs for "boursin", 2 cans green chilis, 24oz LaVictoria red salsa, 2
    green tomatilla salsa, fresh garlic.  x fish, method heavy-duty degreaser, beef,
    -> stupidly paid with AX
  @ Troy Hunt: I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for
    Download https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{first-5-chars-of-sha1-hash}
    Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity script in a gist.  Mine is better
    -> there are < 50 leaked passwords in my database.  a dozen of them belong to other
       people; there are also quite a few PINs and other junk.  None of my "important"
       ones are breached.  So there's work to be done, but it's not urgent.
  % meloxicam

0221Fr
  & awake 4am; S=4:40;
    % dreambits:  dorm room; some spacecraft, switching to 3rd person view when
      reentering, where it and the Russian craft were behaving more like submarines; a
      reunion, ending in typical fashion with the people I was with going swimming; I
      got behind somehow and was too embarrassed to ask which pool to go to.
  * up 7:20ish; S=6:29;
  @ 16 Powerful Songs About Mental Health To Make You Feel Less Alone | HuffPost Life
  @ Children facing uncertain future, experts warn - WHO via BBC News (thnidu)
  @ Reviewing Pull Requests – Chelsea Troy part of this series,
    all of which is well worth reading
  @ Maintaining a Healthy Relationship with Git – The Laboratory ->
    How to Write a Git Commit Message
    Git pretty — justin hileman dot info flowchart.  with humor. from:
    Changing history, or How to Git pretty — justin hileman dot info
  @ Getting Started with React (2019 Edition) ― Scotch.io
    Getting Started with Redux: An Intro ― Scotch.io
    Understanding Redux: The World’s Easiest Guide to Beginning Redux 
  & account juggling - forgot about automatic transfers at UB.
    * Cancel UB->BE checking auto transfer; * $250 from alt checking.
    ? cancel UB -> HX; it really doesn't mean much at this time.
  * renew DL->want EDL, so check DOL for required docs
  / major cleanup (C did most of the work with a shower)
  @ Git From the Bits Up - YouTube fun!
  @ Small Spaces | Apartment Therapy
    Small/Cool Contest www.smallcool.com/
    " Submissions will open on April 3, and stay open for three weeks "
    -> N wants to enter the box room -> art on the walls
  : N arrived 8ish.
  * music - The October Country, The Mary Ellen Carter

0222Sa
  & awake 4am;
    Thoought I heard a message beep, but if so can't find it... ok, from E.  at 10pm.
    good grief!  That's a lot of lag.
  * up 7am; S=7:09;
  ~ 8am wake N -- call if haven't heard by then.  (leave for Oak Harbor ~9)
  : note: the Al stepladder, which I've been looking for for a couple of days, is in the
    box room on the far left.
  * Oak Harbor with N (N driving) to pick up k
  * singing: Daddy's World, Ship of Stone
  % 10:15 meloxicam.  headache, mostly on the left this time